Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."God has immutability! This verse says that! God is not capable of change because his word is good for all the ages, nor is he susceptible to those seeking change. We are to be Godlike in our faith. We are not to change truth for love, power, money, popularity, acceptance or convenience. God's truths, unlike Bill Clinton's, are not poll dependent.
On the subject of abortion, Barbara Walters asked President George H.W. Bush why he was so firm in his stance on abortion. He replied that if 98% of the people were in favor of it, because it's wrong, he would still be against it! What's right is not subject to popular thought nor what's in vogue!
Tackling abortion first, intelligent people should offer no argument. The fetus is one stage of life. It's not vegetable, tissue, nor is it inert. It is life! This is scientific fact and nobody, but ignoramuses would even pretend that it's not! When does life begin? It's at conception! The argument isn't "what is life?", but "when is life important?" To the tender-hearted, empathetic, compassionate, righteous and fair, all life is important!
Why do sane people favor ending life before birth? It's a matter of convenience! It's inconvenient to have to use birth control, it's inconvenient to worry about being pregnant, it's inconvenient when women desire to look good in a bikini, it's inconvenient that the baby is unwanted by it's parents, it's inconvenient that living babies cost money to raise, it's inconvenient that babies take time to nurture, it's inconvenient that babies interfere with careers, it's inconvenient that new homes and cars are delayed because of baby expenses. Unwanted pregnancies are just a matter of being inconvenient!
"But", you say, "what about rape?" Surprise! Babies produced by rape have been known to be as happy as babies born on purpose! It's inconvenient for the families, but adoption is the answer, not killing an innocent being!
"What about the health of the mother? You ask. It has always been the doctor's prerogative to try to save both the mother and the baby, but discerning doctors have always endeavored to save the most viable! That's pragmatic, fair and just. That is not anything new!
God said "You are not to kill!" There are no conditions there! It is obvious that it means "You are not to kill anyone!" What about the unborn?
Exodus 21:22 (ESV) “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life..."If anyone intentionally takes the life of the unborn, it is expected that the one who takes it pay with their own life! Anybody who takes the life of the unborn is a murderer. Anyone who allows for abortion is an accomplice! Think on it when you vote: If you vote for a politician who favors abortion you are an accomplice to murder because you conspire with the accomplice to take lives!
"That's a little harsh!" you think. The voters who put Hitler in power are responsible for the death of Jews because Hitler didn't conceal his antipathy of the Hebrew people. Those who turned their heads to the gas chambers were ushered in after the war so they could see with their own eyes what they condoned. It was just a matter of convenience. It wasn't convenient that Jews had faith, power, prestige and success!
You can deny all you want, but denial doesn't change reality! Abortion is murder and those who empower those that favor abortion are accomplices!
On the subject of same-sex marriage, society says that truly loving people is allowing them to love who they choose. While that is the fair thing to do in the world's eyes, fairness is not synonymous with obedience. It's fair to love all people. It's stupidity to condone what they do! Because we love someone does not mean that we should validate their behavior. As an example, because my son steals doesn't make theft acceptable... even if it is for a good (sic) cause!
Again, God's word is immutable! He destroyed two large cities because their inhabitants were homosexuals. The end-of-times has many signs and one of them is homosexuality: Just as in the days of Noah, at the end it shall be the same! How was it in times of old?
Romans 1:26 "... (ESV) God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done."Homosexuality, from an unbiased scientific perspective is unnatural. Animals have genitals to propagate the species, not mainly for sexual pleasure. The pleasure from mating is a magnet for species to have the desire to mate. Just as Adam and Eve were told to multiply, in order to populate the earth, animals were created to multiply as well. I know that here I have mixed science and theology, but God is the origin of what scientists study. They may not admit it, but who else did what they see? "Chance" is a god which doesn't exist!
When Christians are confronted with what the world believes and what God says, we are always to accept what the one we revere says is true! To others truth is relative and God's statements are reconstructed as lies. God is without bias. Mankind is filled with bias because we're deceived. Men have different "tools" so that they can become one! If you're a Christian and believe that same-sex marriage is okay, then you serve a different master, God is clear that he created men and women to perform with each other, but Satan's desire is that they do things for pleasure in rebellion to God! If you are misled on this issue, even innocently, then forgiveness is the only action which can restore your communion with God!
For those who are practicing homosexuals, they, according to scripture, have a debased mind! The KJV uses "reprobate" as the most proper word rather than "debased". It is eternal damnation because practitioners of homosexuality are seldom inclined to acknowledge the truth of God and instead continue their debased unnatural behavior!
How can Christians best love people? How can we show love to friends and relatives who are homosexual? It's to save them from hell! Rather than condoning debased behavior, regardless of what it is, we are to teach and rebuke sinful behaviors. That's not me saying that. It's God's word:
2 Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine."A couple in our former church invited their daughter and her "friend" to come one Sunday and they did. God knew that they needed to hear something and they did hear! The preacher was led, by divine coincidence (sic) to preach against abortion and fornication. Afterwards the Christian parents came forward and chastised the preacher for being so insensitive as to preach against these two sins because their daughter was shacking up with this man and had undergone an abortion. They were angry! Rather than being glad that the preacher preached truth which may change sinful lives, their desire was that their daughter be placated. "Your sin is okay. God is loving. To be a Christian there's no need to change!" All these enablers are lies of the devil and the Christian parents had been deceived by Satan.
To demonstrate love for those in error, we tell them of their error, but point out that sin can be forgiven if one feels sorrow, repents, believes in Jesus Christ and changes! Change isn't by oneself, but is the self assisted by God's Holy Spirit. With God all things are possible, but when left alone, we are inclined to fail! Rebuking sin and telling of the grace of Jesus is the ultimate display of love! Condoning sin is damning the loved one! Are you showing Godly love are merely practicing the false love taught by the deceiver?
Same-sex marriage and abortion is where pundits claim that Christians need to change. Hillary Clinton has said out loud and in public that "...deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed." in support of abortion, but applicable to the Democrat agenda. Even though their leader says this, many Christians still cling to the Democrat Party and their candidates. It's as if some Christians are masochistic in their thinking because they vote for candidates who seek to destroy them!
God's word, said for the third time, is immutable. It does not and cannot change with the times! It wasn't that God was ignorant of genetics and behaviors, but because he hates sin, that sinful behaviors are called out! God knows that people aren't "Born This Way" as Lady Gaga sings, but are born with a nature to sin. Homosexuality is a behavior chosen by those who have the free will to rebel against God. Unfortunately, it's a behavior that's one of the most difficult to change, but "with God, all things are possible!" What Gaga says is foolishness. What society says and accepts is what the Prince of this world tells them to accept.
Being "born this way" flies in the face of reality. We've all seen clips of Girls Gone Wild engaging ins same-sex romance. This is because they are inebriated, high, free from social constraint in the party environment and are pursuing more profound fun. It has nothing to do with being "born this way" other than we're all born with a tendency to sin! Most of these girls, hopefully, will feel shame tomorrow and seek forgiveness for their sin. Others will think "That was exciting!" and seek out more liaisons. They are making choices, not automating from genetics!
Christians will refuse to change if they are indeed not born of the Spirit. Those who take hedonism into the church are propagating behaviors which God hates. He even says so:
Revelation 2:15 "So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate."What is the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes? It's adultery, promiscuity, homosexuality, fornication, and all the things of pleasure and the pimps who bring such things into the church. It is the things done by Balaam, and taught by Nicolas. It's bringing the things of Rome into the church of Christ!
God hates that doctrine, but that's what Hillary desires and what liberal churches accept and teach! It's those churches of the Laodicean age:
Revelation 3:14 "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."Who are these churches? I can name denominations, but you know who they are! They are the churches which fail to preach against sin and even allow blatant sinners into fellowship without even having to repent of their sins. It's the ones which accept homosexuality, abortion and all types on Balaam-like behaviors to go on in the church. It's the churches where its members support the likes of Hillary Clinton in political elections. It's churches where Christians, if they are, fail to apply scripture in their daily lives. God help us! God change us!
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